AzureXplorer for Visual Studio

AzureXplorer is a comprehensive Visual Studio extension for managing your Windows Azure storage accounts and hosted services without ever leaving the development environment.

AzureXplorer

AzureXplorer Release History

8/16/2010 - Version 1.0.7

  • improved the deployment process (package uploading does not use the modal progress dialog now).
  • deployed instance's properties now include information about the guest operating system.
  • blobs can now be sorted by their type.
  • you can now set advanced properties like Content-Type, Cache-Control on multiple blobs at once.
  • double-clicking on the blob will now download and open it using a default application associated with the blob's type/extension.
  • improved handling of large amount of containers/tables/queues. Now it does not take ages to populate the hierarchy tree with 1000s of containers/tables/queues.
  • added "Delete all" menu command to quickly delete all containers/tables/queues in a storage account (right-click on "Blob containers", "Tables" or "Queues" node inside the storage account hierarchy for the "Delete all" command to appear).

8/4/2010 - Version 1.0.3

  • fixed listview painting issues in container/blob toolwindows.
  • fixed issues where uploaded blobs were erroneously shown in all open container/blob toolwindows.
  • uploaded blobs now receive a proper Content-Type, e.g. application/pdf, image/png, based on the system settings.
  • added tray notifications for hosted services operations.
  • added autostart option when deploying hosted services.

6/23/2010 - Version 1.0.1

  • this release fixes issues reported when installing license keys.

6/20/2010 - Version 1.0.0

  • added the ability to abort queries (Table Service).
  • added "Open query..." context menu option to open a query window without executing the query (Table Service).
  • introduced inline-editing capabilities for entity properties (Table Service).
  • other minor improvements.

04/30/2010 - Version 0.9.5

  • added the ability to upgrade individual roles.
  • moved the filter expression window to the table service toolwindow so that the expression is always visible and can be edited quickly.
  • replaced paging with the "Fetch more" functionality so that now additional rows are appended and the entire resultset is shown in one grid.
  • a running deployment now correctly gets suspended before being deleted.
  • other minor improvements, bug-fixes and tweaks.

04/12/2010 - Version 0.9.3

  • updated for the final release of Visual Studio 2010.
  • improved performance when uploading or downloading page blobs.

03/18/2010 - Version 0.9.1

  • Release for Visual Studio 2010 RC plus small fixes.

03/15/2010 - Version 0.9.0

  • Initial beta release.